If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. WILSONOf course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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